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The National Rifle Association could be planning to undermine Democrat efforts to toughen up restrictions on gun ownership, with reports suggesting that the NRA has quietly agreed to support a bill before the House of Representatives next week.

A senior USA law enforcement official familiar with the investigation identified the deceased suspect as Micah Xavier Johnson. Johnson was black. Law enforcement officials didn't disclose the race of the dead officers. Abbott met with Dallas Police Chief David Brown before joining Rawlings for the Friday briefing. DART identified that officer as Brent Thompson, 43.

At one point, it was believed that at least two sniper-style perpetrators opened fire on the officers from an elevated position near downtown Dallas . President John Kennedy was shot and killed in 1963. He had married a fellow officer in the past two weeks , according to James Spiller, police chief of DART.

Noble was shot four times. Philando Castile's girlfriend, Diamond Reynolds, who recorded his last moments live on Facebook , said his death was part of a larger problem. Carbo said if the USA attorney's office finds any violation of state laws and believes the officers should be charged with battery, assault or murder, it will refer that back to the local district attorney for prosecution.

This is not a plea to all police officers but toward any human being who fails to value life. Two Minneapolis police officers in November shot and killed 24-year-old Jamar Clark in a struggle that broke out when they were called to assist an ambulance crew that was helping Clark's girlfriend.

Some were infuriated, reduced to using expletives to describe what had happened, while others said the deaths underscore that minorities still have reason to fear police. But McMillon resisted those claims Friday, saying she didn't know Sterling to carry a gun and doesn't believe he had one with him the night he was shot to death.